You’dve thought someone would have said _something_ during the making of the programme. I watched it to the end (one of the advantages of video projectors is that you can throw things with some violence at the picture and they just bounce off the wall), and it had researchers and everything. The rest of the programme – on the history of computing – was quite good, in a BBC2 Does Laddish sort of way.

One news editor whom I knew decided to run a special on artificial intelligence. He planned it all out, and then told everyone what they’d be doing. He was shocked (and didn’t believe us at first) when he was told “you do know there’s no such thing as intelligent machines, don’t you?” and “You do know there’s no such thing as an intelligent Kevin Warwick either?”.